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governor may loy was elected in 2010. took office in january of 2011. he's connecticut's first democratic governor in 20 years. upon taking office, he faced a largest per capita deficit in the country. total debt of about $3.5 billion. before taking office, he did several terms as mayor of stanford, connecticut from 1995 to 2009. and what's particularly relevant today for this conversation is promising to make 2012 the year of education in connecticut. he tackled reform agenda and a state long been known for one of the nation's widest racial achievement gaps. and the governor took the lead of passing one of the nation's more dramatic education bills signed in maif of 2012. it was public act 12116 and act concerning education reform. some of the packages most significant features required a new teacher evaluation pilot in which 5% of the evaluation will be based on student learning. the governor's package created a commissioner's networking similar to the recovery school direct in louisiana. which is the ability to take authority over 25 of the state's l
governor may loy was elected in 2010. took office in january of 2011. he's connecticut's first democratic governor in 20 years. upon taking office, he faced a largest per capita deficit in the country. total debt of about $3.5 billion. before taking office, he did several terms as mayor of stanford, connecticut from 1995 to 2009. and what's particularly relevant today for this conversation is promising to make 2012 the year of education in connecticut. he tackled reform agenda and a state long...
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a lot of cases, whoever wins the primary is going to win the election. and so this is just kind of a warning to all republicans that you can't compromise at all. that you can't -- i mean, one of the chris mcdaniel's points against thad cochran is he voted to end the shutdown. so don't vote to end the shutdown. >> i was going to say that's very true, but some of that's going to get worked out in the primary as well. i think chris' question is going to be the one that even some primary voters will ask themselves. so what would be your plan? and so, that's why i say in states like south carolina, it's not a given that it naturally falls a certain way just because it's south and conservative. >> let's look at this web ad against mitch mcconnell. here's the further conservative primary opponent hitting the senate minority leader hard for what he does, compromise and govern. look at this one. >> some critics say the election would be a shoe in for him if he were a leader. >> conservatives in your conference not happy about this deal. >> it's much better for de
a lot of cases, whoever wins the primary is going to win the election. and so this is just kind of a warning to all republicans that you can't compromise at all. that you can't -- i mean, one of the chris mcdaniel's points against thad cochran is he voted to end the shutdown. so don't vote to end the shutdown. >> i was going to say that's very true, but some of that's going to get worked out in the primary as well. i think chris' question is going to be the one that even some primary...
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governor malloy was first elected in 2010. took office in january of 2011. he is connecticut's first democratic governor in 20 years. he faced the largest per capita deficit in the country. pointdebt of about three $5 billion. he did several terms of -- as mayor of stamford, connecticut. make 2012 the year of education in connecticut, he tackled a reform agenda in a state that has long been known for one of the nation's widest racial achievement gaps. the governor took the lead in passing one of the nations more dramatic education bills. act -- some of the required a new teacher evaluation pilot in which 45% will be based on student learning. the governor's package created a commissioners network similar to the recovery school district and we see hannah. it has the ability to take authority over 25 of the state's lowest performing schools. an increased charter school funding. the figure will go to 11,500 i fiscal 2015. -- 2015.cal 20 fiend you. is great to be with i appreciate the opportunity to speak about an issue that is very dear to my heart. i like to t
governor malloy was first elected in 2010. took office in january of 2011. he is connecticut's first democratic governor in 20 years. he faced the largest per capita deficit in the country. pointdebt of about three $5 billion. he did several terms of -- as mayor of stamford, connecticut. make 2012 the year of education in connecticut, he tackled a reform agenda in a state that has long been known for one of the nation's widest racial achievement gaps. the governor took the lead in passing one...
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every candidate believes they will win, but he had never lost an election. you can see the look on the kids face. >> the only person in american history to serve both as vice president and president without ever having face the public and won the electoral vote. not long after that with the intervention with the family. we will listen to steve ford tell the story about the intervention as the family realize the extent of betty ford's problem with alcohol and with drugs. >> i think we sensed something during the presidency because she had legitimate pain from several pinched nerves and she was getting medication. what we did not know was the combination of alcohol and those medications produce that cocktail that took away some of her sharpness. eventually, it had to play out. it had to get to the other side of the presidency where it created a time for mom after the presidency where she was not first lady. she was out in california. dad was traveling a lot. they were building a new home and the kids were all gone. over months, she developed a melancholy that
every candidate believes they will win, but he had never lost an election. you can see the look on the kids face. >> the only person in american history to serve both as vice president and president without ever having face the public and won the electoral vote. not long after that with the intervention with the family. we will listen to steve ford tell the story about the intervention as the family realize the extent of betty ford's problem with alcohol and with drugs. >> i think...
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things that happened for the first time in georgia in the past eighteen months the first democratic election in the history of modern georgia peaceful transfer of power and it is for the first time that an actual opposition is present in the parliament having a real opposition force in a parliament and a position that dislikes you so much and will oppose you in many ways is it a good thing or a bad thing for the country. and i think if we look at this issue in terms of paul . we can call them an opposition force of course but i would say that they're very hard to understand in general that there are more often opposition to themselves there are opposing their own people their own citizens and their own country in other words they're not doing anything new in reality so you do not view them as healthy competition it's very difficult to maintain a healthy competition with. there's no such thing as healthy criticism from them with i'm not sure they understand what the word healthy means in the first place with neither do they know what the word objective stands for that will be little but i wan
things that happened for the first time in georgia in the past eighteen months the first democratic election in the history of modern georgia peaceful transfer of power and it is for the first time that an actual opposition is present in the parliament having a real opposition force in a parliament and a position that dislikes you so much and will oppose you in many ways is it a good thing or a bad thing for the country. and i think if we look at this issue in terms of paul . we can call them...
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things that happened for the first time in georgia in the past eighteen months the first democratic election in the history of modern georgia peaceful transfer of power and it is for the first time that an actual opposition is present in the parliament having a real opposition force in a parliament in a position that dislikes you so much and will oppose you in many ways is it a good thing or a bad thing for the country. and i think if we look at this issue in terms of paul . we can call them an opposition force of course but i would say that they're very hard to understand in general that there are more often opposition to themselves there are opposing their own people their own citizens and their own country in other words they're not doing anything new in reality so you do not view them as healthy competition it's very difficult to maintain a healthy competition with them then there is no such thing as healthy criticism from them with i'm not sure they understand what the word healthy means in the first place with anything neither do they know what the word objective stands for that will b
things that happened for the first time in georgia in the past eighteen months the first democratic election in the history of modern georgia peaceful transfer of power and it is for the first time that an actual opposition is present in the parliament having a real opposition force in a parliament in a position that dislikes you so much and will oppose you in many ways is it a good thing or a bad thing for the country. and i think if we look at this issue in terms of paul . we can call them an...
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day after day they marched and said the election was rigged. they waved orange flags and wore orange scarves. and in the end they won. that mass protest movement forced a new presidential erection. the poisoned guy won. that was known as the orange resolution. he was running against an anti-western guy who was pushing for closer ties to russia. and now the pendulum is swinging back again and rather fax. the president of the ukraine rejected an opportunity to pull the country away from the grip of russia and towards the rest of europe. nine years after the first one, mass protests again in the streets of ukraine's capital city. and they are protesting against the exact same guy. the protesters were marching against the country's president. demanding that he turn his back on putin and open their country to the west. protest leaders sensing that leaders turned to their advantage. the weekend the protest did turn violent when police decided to use force. the clashes got so violent that the chief of police submitted his resignation last night. these
day after day they marched and said the election was rigged. they waved orange flags and wore orange scarves. and in the end they won. that mass protest movement forced a new presidential erection. the poisoned guy won. that was known as the orange resolution. he was running against an anti-western guy who was pushing for closer ties to russia. and now the pendulum is swinging back again and rather fax. the president of the ukraine rejected an opportunity to pull the country away from the grip...
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he survived the poisoning but later lost the election. or at least it seemed like he did before his supporters took to to the streets. day after day they marched on this square saying the election was rigged and they wore orange scarves and flags because org was his campaign color. in the end they wochbl it forced a new presidential election and when the votes were counted, it turns out the poisoned guy won. that was known as the orange revolution because of the sea of orange-clad protesters that filled the streets in ukraine. that was 2004. the guy who was ultimately declared the winner of the election, the poisoned guy. he was a pro--western politician. running against anti-western guy. an ally of vladimir putten pushing for closer ties with russia. the pro putin guy has managed to become president of the ukraine and now the pendulum is swinging back and rather fast. this is fascinating. last month, the pro--putin guy, the president of ukraine now, decided to reject an agreement that would have brought his country closer to the european
he survived the poisoning but later lost the election. or at least it seemed like he did before his supporters took to to the streets. day after day they marched on this square saying the election was rigged and they wore orange scarves and flags because org was his campaign color. in the end they wochbl it forced a new presidential election and when the votes were counted, it turns out the poisoned guy won. that was known as the orange revolution because of the sea of orange-clad protesters...
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on the me me me me it's you call it a dictatorship but there are elections there's the next elections in june two thousand the bowl beat the is the what is going well right now and the street. i quilted this is the that is putting up its fuel for one minute. joining history of independence a few create twenty second of it to tuesday. we didn't have to on the list. and this disc will be enough. who will be this way because of that. it never happened before. yes we will address that yes we were forced to not to comply with squares but we will bring them to face my list of companies and we loved eating and going to hospitals. after all this and it has happened before. right now we're just looking in its remit to form with two russian under the premise his apology. you know what to expect from the person who is fast sing too. nice to be people tune into maine and beads and then to see that he's just completely taken up he cannot stop five thousand five hundred thousand people with policeman wanted to know what else do you expect from the firm to get to none did in the yukon to be of such
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you talk about reaching policy makers and politician and elected officials, how do we reach them? you can be the best lawyer in the world, but if you don't have an investigator and you don't have the resources you are not going to be able to do a competent job. i understand that we can train individual defenders to be better defenders but how do we get those resources? >> how do we get the resources? there is not one answer to this question. i absolutely agree with karen and don that these stories move people and we have to use these stories in books and movies to get legislators who are human beings to recognize that there is a real injustice out there. i think we need to push for more funds and more resources. i think all of that is really important. the piece we bring to it is in the meantime our lawyers represent 300 people a year. the most common call i get from a lawyer, they say, i understand what my clients deserve and i can't give it to them and i think i need to quit. i i can't do what you all do. i tell them about a book i read called freedom summer about the summer pro
you talk about reaching policy makers and politician and elected officials, how do we reach them? you can be the best lawyer in the world, but if you don't have an investigator and you don't have the resources you are not going to be able to do a competent job. i understand that we can train individual defenders to be better defenders but how do we get those resources? >> how do we get the resources? there is not one answer to this question. i absolutely agree with karen and don that...
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this election is not a november but a march election. it becomes interesting because everybody can focus their resources on this race and this race alone for the narrow window of time. as soon as it is over, everybody ourclaim our message one, anti-obama message, pro obamacare, anti-whatever, pro- choice, anti-abortion, whatever the message is, millions of dollars are going to flow into the race because, it is a tossup, a truly evenly split istrict, and bill young representative for years and there is a lot of pent-up energy for candidates waiting for an opportunity. because everybody is hoping this will be the race that proves our ideological position is on the rise. david is joining us. good morning. good morning, c-span, the best channel on television. good morning steve and paul. i am a world war ii veteran who everyted in general -- federal state and most municipal elections since president harry truman. how old are you? caller: 90 years young next month. england and was discharged october 20, 1945. on this one day after the anniver
this election is not a november but a march election. it becomes interesting because everybody can focus their resources on this race and this race alone for the narrow window of time. as soon as it is over, everybody ourclaim our message one, anti-obama message, pro obamacare, anti-whatever, pro- choice, anti-abortion, whatever the message is, millions of dollars are going to flow into the race because, it is a tossup, a truly evenly split istrict, and bill young representative for years and...
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things that happened for the first time in georgia in the past eighteen months the first democratic election in the history of modern georgia peaceful transfer of power and it is for the first time that an actual opposition is present in the parliament having a real opposition force in a parliament and a position that dislikes you so much and will oppose you in many ways is it a good thing or a bad thing for the country. and i think if we look at this issue in terms of politics we can call them an opposition force of course but i would say that there are very hard to understand engine. that there are more often opposition to themselves they are opposing their own people their own citizens and their own country in other words they're not doing anything new in reality so you do not view them as healthy competition it's very difficult to maintain a healthy competition with. there's no such thing as healthy criticism from them with a i'm not sure they understand what the word healthy means in the first place with neither do they know what the word objective stands for that will be little but i w
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he announced that he will not be running for re-election. >>> well, a full court press. at 2:30 this afternoon, the president goes all in with a december pr push to promote healthcare.gov and congressional underachievers. congress is about to go down as the least productive in our history. those are the topics for our agenda panel. suzy khimm is a national correspondent for msnbc, ron reagan is an msnbc analyst and steve benen is a contributor and producer for the rachel maddow show. i like this. suzy, the administration is feeling certainly confident enough to sell now to the public. is this going to be enough to combat the perception issues and the problems that they had initially with the rollout? >> so basically the obama administration is transitioning from this period in which it's trying to get the technical side of things to working to actually selling the law itself, which at this point is still a major task. the law is definitely going to disrupt health insurance in both positive ways and for some, some negative ways. so basically the administration is basicall
he announced that he will not be running for re-election. >>> well, a full court press. at 2:30 this afternoon, the president goes all in with a december pr push to promote healthcare.gov and congressional underachievers. congress is about to go down as the least productive in our history. those are the topics for our agenda panel. suzy khimm is a national correspondent for msnbc, ron reagan is an msnbc analyst and steve benen is a contributor and producer for the rachel maddow show. i...
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they got scott brown elected. they took the law all the way to the supreme court, voted dozens of times to defund or repeal it, shut down the government for 16 days, and obama care survived all of it. irony is that while republicans couldn't kill obama care, the administration almost could. >> good evening. president obama now finds himself compared to president george w. bush, as in the problems with the health care plan have become president obama's katrina. >> but today, the website is now fixed enough that it looks like obama care is really here to stay. the repeal strategy is dead and obama care is out of the icu. according to the administration, the error message rate for the front end of the website is less than 1%. that's down from about 6% last month. the site can now handle 50,000 users at a time, 800,000 per day. keep in mind, at one point, the site could handle only about 1,000 users at a time. >> this website is and will function effectively for the vast majority of users. >> not only is the website f
they got scott brown elected. they took the law all the way to the supreme court, voted dozens of times to defund or repeal it, shut down the government for 16 days, and obama care survived all of it. irony is that while republicans couldn't kill obama care, the administration almost could. >> good evening. president obama now finds himself compared to president george w. bush, as in the problems with the health care plan have become president obama's katrina. >> but today, the...
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want and indeed what sort of influence could it have over these elections if any. well i think the outcome the u.s. is hoping for is another government similar to the karzai government will emerge one that will be committed to the whatever agreement is signed between the karzai government the united states and ultimately for the united states it's really not about who the particular leader is they'll find someone it's about the fact that afghanistan is at the crossroads of the world in so many ways the central asian republics which the west is attempting to influence in a way to be hostile towards russia china iran and so having this fifteen thousand troops in afghanistan is absolutely vital for the united states to extend its geo political power and i think that their entire goal with the elections process and whatever they can do around it will be to have a government emerge that is essentially over all right with the united states using afghanistan as a base for power projection around the region using great to talk to you thank you very much and the usual you r
want and indeed what sort of influence could it have over these elections if any. well i think the outcome the u.s. is hoping for is another government similar to the karzai government will emerge one that will be committed to the whatever agreement is signed between the karzai government the united states and ultimately for the united states it's really not about who the particular leader is they'll find someone it's about the fact that afghanistan is at the crossroads of the world in so many...
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in the november general election he's running against whoever wins the democratic and the republican primary. >>> part of the minimum wage hike passed by the d.c. council yesterday would expand the number of people getting sick leave in the city. it expands the 2008 bill to include people who work for tips. the council is set for a vinyl vote on -- final vote on the measure in the next few weeks. >>> a checkup now on the affordable care act. the white house says nearly 30,000 people signed up for health insurance coverage on healthcare.gov over just the first two days of december as the website was relaunched. and that 30,000 surpasses signups during the entire month of october. but getting young people to sign up and healthy people to sign up is the key. the premiums that young healthy people pay help to bring down the cost for the sick and the elderly. at a white house youth summit, president obama encouraged the young people there to spread the word. >> for your friends and your family, the most important source of information is not going to be me. it's going to be you. >> and on
in the november general election he's running against whoever wins the democratic and the republican primary. >>> part of the minimum wage hike passed by the d.c. council yesterday would expand the number of people getting sick leave in the city. it expands the 2008 bill to include people who work for tips. the council is set for a vinyl vote on -- final vote on the measure in the next few weeks. >>> a checkup now on the affordable care act. the white house says nearly 30,000...
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venezuelans go back to the polls to elect mayors. five years ago under hugo chavez the majority of seats were won by his party. my perception is there's a growing number of people in vensa in the middle. people should be cabbing them. >> there are significant food shortages around the country. crime in the capital is surging. the inflation rate is one of the highest in the world. economists say the economic crisis is growing. >> we are dangerously dependent on oil. the government used the resources without saving international reserves. it caused a fast expansion of cash. international reserves fall. >> in a country where 96% of income is oil exports, for many venezuelans economic policies are failing. >> the government is an official. monday's elections show how loyal you will continue to be for the government party. that's the case for 65-year-old retiree. he juggles every day between markets for his mother and wife. >> translation: we have to go around to find products. i vote for a candidate because the food shortages are because
venezuelans go back to the polls to elect mayors. five years ago under hugo chavez the majority of seats were won by his party. my perception is there's a growing number of people in vensa in the middle. people should be cabbing them. >> there are significant food shortages around the country. crime in the capital is surging. the inflation rate is one of the highest in the world. economists say the economic crisis is growing. >> we are dangerously dependent on oil. the government...
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i would say in the recent election in the governor's race in virginia, you did see turnout that didn't appreciably drop in terms of the percentage of the electorate that was made up by certain segments of that population that you would normally see in a non-presidential election. so i definitely think there is some hope for that and there's certainly some evidence for that. it's clear that that is going to have to happen in order to see change in a government that might well be determined because of redistricting and the real estate of the political environment as much as anything else. >> yeah. david corn, he was very careful to say the people that don't necessarily show up meaning minorities and young people. there he was talking to a young people's crowd to project to a larger number of people using that audience. did you hear -- because the only implication could be. or he still hopes to get a governoring majority in both houses where he's able to get things done. like immigration, like a lot of things in implementing fully obama care? >> to me there's an interesting thing here of
i would say in the recent election in the governor's race in virginia, you did see turnout that didn't appreciably drop in terms of the percentage of the electorate that was made up by certain segments of that population that you would normally see in a non-presidential election. so i definitely think there is some hope for that and there's certainly some evidence for that. it's clear that that is going to have to happen in order to see change in a government that might well be determined...
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to vote, it was through that election that president nelson mandela was elected at the age of 75 years old. we see parallels in this country not only in the jim crow south in this country but also right now as republicans across the country and in the state of ohio are trying to turn back the hands of time when it comes to giving access to the voters, to the ballot box. it is the one place, ed, where all of us are equal. and we have a moral obligation to stand up for everybody's right to vote. it is shameful what is happening in this state and across this country at the hands of the gop. >> this is socially engineering the vote. that's how i view it. are these bills a direct attack on democratic voters? >> not just democratic voters, ed. i think in some ways all voters. but the targets are certainly young people. the targets are elderly people. the targets are poor people. because those are the groups that will have the greatest hurdles to summount. in 2004 in ohio the lines were so long, it was very reminiscent of what happened in florida in 2012. people had to wait in urban areas for
to vote, it was through that election that president nelson mandela was elected at the age of 75 years old. we see parallels in this country not only in the jim crow south in this country but also right now as republicans across the country and in the state of ohio are trying to turn back the hands of time when it comes to giving access to the voters, to the ballot box. it is the one place, ed, where all of us are equal. and we have a moral obligation to stand up for everybody's right to vote....
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. >> the president ran the election. million people showed up on the website yesterday. guess what, 380,000 showed up before noon today. >> republicans insist it is just the tip of the iceberg. >> this bill is fundamentally flawed. it is causing people to lose the doctor of their choice, causing em to lose their healthlan. d if that is not enough they're having to pay much higher prices at the same time. >> noting there is not a lot of air cover for the president from congressional democrats who did not have a lot of news conferences to back him up. perhaps nervous politically about touting this health care law, but a white house official just told me it is the first day of a 3-week campaign and they're confident the president will have the support in the end. lou: thank you very much. despite the president's defiance, millions of americans face a fast approaching deadline to avoid a gap in health care coverage. over 5 million individual plans have already been canceled. most with policies that expire at the end of the month and with an obamacare website that is still fa
. >> the president ran the election. million people showed up on the website yesterday. guess what, 380,000 showed up before noon today. >> republicans insist it is just the tip of the iceberg. >> this bill is fundamentally flawed. it is causing people to lose the doctor of their choice, causing em to lose their healthlan. d if that is not enough they're having to pay much higher prices at the same time. >> noting there is not a lot of air cover for the president from...
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expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters so as he's making this decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited money he's assuming that there's going to be transparency of this that these corporations are going to tell their shareholders about it. don't you think we should take these assumption and make this happen so that we do have this need to transparency here's the problem with what the as the sea was trying to do as a bureaucracy they do not have the authority constitutionally to do anything about this you know who does the supreme court and the legislature legislate or venues that regulates unions here right however right but however the problem is that if democrats. i want the f.c.c. to regular this then they need to pass a law which is the constitutional way to go about doing this telling the as you see to regulate this in a different way. ok not up to the f.c.c. to make it a priority and to make this decision without constitution or without the constitutio
expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters so as he's making this decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited money he's assuming that there's going to be transparency of this that these corporations are going to tell their shareholders about it. don't you think we should take these assumption and make this happen so that we do have this need to transparency here's...
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election. >> i think we want to rates a lot of news and tell entertainment stories i think there is a incremental political scoop that now it's just a tweet. it was something that was never that interesting and basically contained 142 characters that someone's press secretary put which are super fun to do if your covering it campaign and maybe just publishing things on twitter and writing the story is going to absorb more of the small increment which is great because it's a waste of time to write those stories. you feel like you are stretching to fill 400 words but i don't know. basically you want to do really like deep reporting and those are the things. and also we want to do fun and entertaining stuff about these guys. politics has always been both about policy and power but also gossip and personality and if you ever talked any of these politicians, that's what they want to talk about. it's all kind of rolled up together so we kind of have to do all of that. yeah, so that's all i've got. thanks all you guys for coming and thanks a.j. for -- for putting this whole thing together.
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the republican party this year has shown itself not to have recovered from the 2012 election. not to have learned from a lot of mistakes it made last year. they have big problems with women. >> what about the report. it has been a lot of year for republicans to rebrand themselves. >> the virginia governor's race was like a rerun and exposed how the problems are still there. not just in ken cuccinelli's campaign. they are in a lot of campaigns. the immigration reform, it's certainly a loss for the president. they will as republicans know continue to use it and hammer it with president obama going to visit the fasters this weekend. he's going to continue to talk about immigration even if he knows it's a lot of cause. >> the republicans have won the big issue called the health care. the the democrats have seven that terry mcauliffe used in that governor's race and frankly every democrat running for the u.s. senate is going to use. immigration is one of them, contraception. we can go down the list. >> i think if you're a politician running in 2014, the key is don't be part of wash
the republican party this year has shown itself not to have recovered from the 2012 election. not to have learned from a lot of mistakes it made last year. they have big problems with women. >> what about the report. it has been a lot of year for republicans to rebrand themselves. >> the virginia governor's race was like a rerun and exposed how the problems are still there. not just in ken cuccinelli's campaign. they are in a lot of campaigns. the immigration reform, it's certainly...
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four years later he was elected south africa's first president. let's examine the man behind the status. our first guest had a strong connection. his grandfather taught mandela and his grandmother visited the south african leader in prison. it's a pleasure to have you here. i know you are the headmaster of the groten school. i'm glad you took time on what must be a hard day, given the family connections you had and you know him yourself. >> thank you for having me, i'm honoured to be here and i thank groten school for allowing me to be here. the man would have loved that. >> tell me about your family and connections to nelson mandela. >> my grandfather taught nelson mandela in college in social anthropology. they belonged to the anc, the same organization. my grandmother was also a political leader within the anc. >> and your grandmother then also was close to him and visited him in prison, and nelson mandela wrote her. >> several times, and my grandmother would write back. she told me she wrote so many letters, some of which never reached him. a
four years later he was elected south africa's first president. let's examine the man behind the status. our first guest had a strong connection. his grandfather taught mandela and his grandmother visited the south african leader in prison. it's a pleasure to have you here. i know you are the headmaster of the groten school. i'm glad you took time on what must be a hard day, given the family connections you had and you know him yourself. >> thank you for having me, i'm honoured to be here...
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opposition activists have marched in hundreds to a journey there for show results of this week's national election they say the vote was arranged by their candidate. is the rightful winner for lead the procession of following the coffin of a party supporter who was killed by security forces hours before the demonstration . and stay with us for sophie and co one so for sure i know it is speaks to the prime minister of georgia that's coming up after the break. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making the historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and in the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word gener
opposition activists have marched in hundreds to a journey there for show results of this week's national election they say the vote was arranged by their candidate. is the rightful winner for lead the procession of following the coffin of a party supporter who was killed by security forces hours before the demonstration . and stay with us for sophie and co one so for sure i know it is speaks to the prime minister of georgia that's coming up after the break. ukraine is in a tough spot right now...
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not only by his election but by his willingness to step down from power after only one term. given the sweep of his life, the scope of his accomplishments, the adoration that he so rightly earned, it's tempting to remember nelson mandela as an icon. smiling. but ma -- madiba resisted the portrait. instead, madiba insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears. his miscalculations long with his victories. i am not a saint, he said, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. it was precisely because he would admit imperfects, full of humor and mischief, despite the heavy burden he carried, that we loved him most. he was not a bust made of marble. he was man of fresh and blood. a son and a husband. a father and a friend. and that's why we learned so much from him and why we can learn from him still. nothing he achieved cass inevitable. in the arc of his life we see man who earned his police in history through struggles and persistence and sureness and faith. he tells us what is possible, not just in the pages of history books, but in our own lives as well
not only by his election but by his willingness to step down from power after only one term. given the sweep of his life, the scope of his accomplishments, the adoration that he so rightly earned, it's tempting to remember nelson mandela as an icon. smiling. but ma -- madiba resisted the portrait. instead, madiba insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears. his miscalculations long with his victories. i am not a saint, he said, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on...
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you have got to be careful what you say when you are in an election. when you say it's going to be the most transparent administration in history you will be held to that standard. >> what about calling the president a liar. is that okay? i think so. i know bob you don't like it. i'm wondering what bob had for breakfast because i'm nodding my head. i think there is a high bar set by the president. when i worked in washington, d.c., we figured out every way to call our opponent anything but a liar. however, during this last presidential election president obama actually used the term and their staff did on his campaign. it shocked a lot of people that they went there first. now that that bar has been lowered and they are calling each other a liar, i do think it's fair. and either they are grossly incompetent or they are deceitful. either way the credibility has been lost. a lot of people gave him goodwill when oh came in to do obamacare. this touches him personally. >> you are touching on something that's important here. it's the way this president came
you have got to be careful what you say when you are in an election. when you say it's going to be the most transparent administration in history you will be held to that standard. >> what about calling the president a liar. is that okay? i think so. i know bob you don't like it. i'm wondering what bob had for breakfast because i'm nodding my head. i think there is a high bar set by the president. when i worked in washington, d.c., we figured out every way to call our opponent anything...
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the commonwealth in the history of close elections, that was the closest statewide election in virginia history. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. >>> weather wise, it's pretty mild here in our neck of the woods. but a wicked winter storm is enveloping a big part of the country bringing dangerous snows and deadly temperatures. at least six deaths are already blamed on the deadly blast. leanne gregg is in denver with a look at how folks are coping. >> reporter: in colorado, road crews working around the clock are trying to keep pace with falling snow and icy conditions. some mountain areas are bracing for up to two feet of snow. in denver lows below zero are expected for several days. more snow near duluth, minnesota, up to a foot today, on top of 26 inches yesterday. by friday, temperature this is the region could drop to more than 20 below. >> stay indoors a lot more. i don't like 30 below weather. nobody does. just part of what happens. >> it's going to be a white christmas. and it's nice and cold. >> slick road causing dangerous conditions. the utah highway patrol reported 160
the commonwealth in the history of close elections, that was the closest statewide election in virginia history. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. >>> weather wise, it's pretty mild here in our neck of the woods. but a wicked winter storm is enveloping a big part of the country bringing dangerous snows and deadly temperatures. at least six deaths are already blamed on the deadly blast. leanne gregg is in denver with a look at how folks are coping. >> reporter: in colorado,...
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he even moved a special election for a u.s. senate seat to a day when he would not have to be on the ballot with a popular democrat so as to not risk shrinking his margin of victory, didn't want to run on the same day that new jersey was going to pick newark mayor cory booker as their new democratic u.s. senator. governor christie's decision to hold that election on a separate-day from his own recoronation cost the state millions of dollars. chris christie made that decision, even though he led the governors race by double digits the whole way. on his way to his second term, chris christie got support from dozens of leading new jersey democrats, including lots and lots of local mayors, but he did not get the endorsement of the democratic mayor of ft. lee. well, then, they happened to discover one morning that ordinary life had been suspended in his town with no warning, no notice and no news of when it would end. on day four of the gridlock shutdown of ft. lee, the mayor wrote a letter to the agency that runs the bridge. "havin
he even moved a special election for a u.s. senate seat to a day when he would not have to be on the ballot with a popular democrat so as to not risk shrinking his margin of victory, didn't want to run on the same day that new jersey was going to pick newark mayor cory booker as their new democratic u.s. senator. governor christie's decision to hold that election on a separate-day from his own recoronation cost the state millions of dollars. chris christie made that decision, even though he led...
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does the prime minister accept that when interest rates go up after the election, it will detonate a sub-prime debt crisis of his making? >> the greatest danger in terms of interest rates would be to have a government who believed in more borrowing, more spending, and more taxing. that is what would drive up interest rates, that is what would hit the cost of living and that is what every family in this country should dread. >> order. >> you're been watching prime minister's questions. question time airs on c-span2 every wednesday. again on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. you can watch anytime at c- span.org. >> a conversation with supreme court justice elena kagan about the inner workings of the supreme court. after that, a discussion of the constitution and the rule of justice with supreme court justice clarence thomas. then, the future of the republican party is seen by strategist anna navarro. >> next, supreme court justice elena kagan discussing the working of the u.s. supreme court at the university of alabama law school. >> i'm having to get used to that title. we
does the prime minister accept that when interest rates go up after the election, it will detonate a sub-prime debt crisis of his making? >> the greatest danger in terms of interest rates would be to have a government who believed in more borrowing, more spending, and more taxing. that is what would drive up interest rates, that is what would hit the cost of living and that is what every family in this country should dread. >> order. >> you're been watching prime minister's...
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a number of the elected members said because of current legal precedent they don't have standing. they don't have a way as a plaintiff to go to court and say they want to sue the executive court over these issues. senator bayh, you talked about something during this hearing, which is why the regulatory branchs and jonathan turley, said it's also like the rise of the fourth branch that the founders never intended but the federal agency have so much power to carry out in tandem with the executive branch things that the president would like to get done and there's no check on them. >> shannon, that's exactly right. any president that is going to use that regulatory power to the maximum extent they can otherwise their election has not meant anything. so let's take the dodd/frank bill, regulating the financial services or, as jon mentioned, obama care. those laws were probably 10% prescripted by congress, you will do this and you won't do that and that, by definition, is congress handing over the regulatory authorities, vast maneuver and we're seeing it used very aggressively right now
a number of the elected members said because of current legal precedent they don't have standing. they don't have a way as a plaintiff to go to court and say they want to sue the executive court over these issues. senator bayh, you talked about something during this hearing, which is why the regulatory branchs and jonathan turley, said it's also like the rise of the fourth branch that the founders never intended but the federal agency have so much power to carry out in tandem with the executive...
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we debated proposals during the last presidential election, you'll remember. no voucherizing medicare, selling insurance across state lines. those are still the main tenants republicans push and they get limited success with them. >> anyway, after hitting the white house for months over the website issue, the right has pretty much shrugged off the improvements. their message seems to be so what, the law's still unworkable. let's watch the attack. >> the president's health care law continues to wreak havoc on american families, small businesses, and our economy. and it's not just a broken website. this bill is fundamentally flawed. >> while the white house wants to claim that healthcare.gov is now working, we know that obama care is still plagued with problems. and every american deserves relief from it. >> i still think the foundations of this plan have some of the same kinds of problems that the rollout has had, but they're fundamental. very hard to overcome. >> when this website eventually gets fixed, the problems really begin for this administration. this i
we debated proposals during the last presidential election, you'll remember. no voucherizing medicare, selling insurance across state lines. those are still the main tenants republicans push and they get limited success with them. >> anyway, after hitting the white house for months over the website issue, the right has pretty much shrugged off the improvements. their message seems to be so what, the law's still unworkable. let's watch the attack. >> the president's health care law...
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. >> elections have an interesting effect on washington. i believe the worst is yet to come. employer sponsored plans were given a year. next year the employer mandate is fully implementable. so in september or october if you get coverage through your employer you get a sticker shock premium increase. that's the shoe that hasn't fallen yet. that breaks democrats when people get notice from employers about the increase of coverage or the fact that the employer dropped coverage. >> you introduced a bill that says anybody can opt out of obama care. am i understanding that? >> no. remember, he's given waivers to his buddies -- unions and everybody he really likes doesn't have to deal with the law. as a matter of fact, the whole executive branch is exempt from obama care. what i said is that states should be able to determine if they want to stay in or out. if you want to stay in, great. give the people in south carolina a chance to opt out. give us the opportunity you have given your political buddies. >> i don't understand. when ted cruz did his filibuster and you will say i can
. >> elections have an interesting effect on washington. i believe the worst is yet to come. employer sponsored plans were given a year. next year the employer mandate is fully implementable. so in september or october if you get coverage through your employer you get a sticker shock premium increase. that's the shoe that hasn't fallen yet. that breaks democrats when people get notice from employers about the increase of coverage or the fact that the employer dropped coverage. >>...
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with elections. that's kind of off the table and bible admit my party didn't do as well as we probably should have ended the other election but we did do well when we stored numbers and congress changed and then we've also talked about impeachment, which again i don't think what gets passed the senate in the current. am i missing anything? is there anything else we can do, mr. turley? >> as we said before for years i've encouraged members to consider members standing the stand-alone issue to try to find a way to establish the constitutionally or through statute to allow the members of congress. >> about your start going to get that through any amount of time. >> i published along the line and i reached this which i also testified on. >> that was in the list of -- >> what is fascinating is that because congress has been stripped of more and more of its power, it has actually put more emphasis on appointment as a way of controlling -- >> have we been stripped of it or giving it up? >> as i said it befo
with elections. that's kind of off the table and bible admit my party didn't do as well as we probably should have ended the other election but we did do well when we stored numbers and congress changed and then we've also talked about impeachment, which again i don't think what gets passed the senate in the current. am i missing anything? is there anything else we can do, mr. turley? >> as we said before for years i've encouraged members to consider members standing the stand-alone issue...
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it grew sharper when south africa elected a white government passing laws taking racism to the extreme. the resettlement of 3 million, deprives the right to vote and travel. stripping them of citizenship. nelson mandela was 30. he was convinced peaceful demonstrations would never be enough. he helped to form and one an amped guerilla movement. a campaign of bombings and sabotage in the '60s led to his arrest and prosecution along with others in the movement. convicted but spared a death sentence, nelson mandela would spend a quarter of a century, 27 years behind prison walls, 18 of them at the notorious robin island. outside the fight grew more fears. aggression and violence focussed the attention of the world on racism. nelson mandela became the most famous prisoner in the world. the powerful international condemnation and growing domestic unrest chipped away at apart hide until nelson mandela was released from prison. the streets flowed with joy. the man, who was a powerful symbol of resistance, walked free, vowing never to go back to the black hell of apartheid. >> i have spoken abo
it grew sharper when south africa elected a white government passing laws taking racism to the extreme. the resettlement of 3 million, deprives the right to vote and travel. stripping them of citizenship. nelson mandela was 30. he was convinced peaceful demonstrations would never be enough. he helped to form and one an amped guerilla movement. a campaign of bombings and sabotage in the '60s led to his arrest and prosecution along with others in the movement. convicted but spared a death...
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he was elected in 2010 and certainly has made his mark in a very short time. he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility. and a warrior against government overreach. among his first legislative proposals, cutting a $500 billion federal spending proposal and a plan to balance the federal budget in just five years. he has since introduced several bills with growing support. in the senate, he serves on the foreign relations committee. education, labor and pension, homeland security, and government affairs and the small business community. a graduate of the duke university school of medicine, he was a practicing ophthalmologist in bowling green, kentucky, for 17 years. 1995, he founded the southern kentucky alliance i clinic, an organization that provides eye exam and surgery to needy families and individuals. he still does that pro bono work today. vocalr paul has been a advocate for term limits, a balanced budget amendment, a read the bills act, and audit of the federal reserve. he has also gained prominence f
he was elected in 2010 and certainly has made his mark in a very short time. he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility. and a warrior against government overreach. among his first legislative proposals, cutting a $500 billion federal spending proposal and a plan to balance the federal budget in just five years. he has since introduced several bills with growing support. in the senate, he serves on the foreign relations committee. education,...
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. >> the election is like which party will commit suicide last. the republicans messed up with the government shutdown, now the obama website. the concern next we'll see. >> joining me political writer, "daily beast" columnist sally cohn and contributor editor wallace walls. from washington, no longer in auburn gear although i expect his team spirit is soaring former white house secretary and founding partner of the insight agency robert gibbs. robert, i'll start with you. i will use football metaphors for fans at home and fans on set. is the white house -- is healthcare.gov are we seeing end to end a la auburn last night? is this a major play we're seeing on december 1st or are we in the middle of the field right now? >> i think the obama administration should be glad it appears to be first and ten again. it's no longer third and 35. we're a long way from 109 yard field goal return. look, i think you summed it up quite well. the users experience on the front end is greatly enhanced for most people that are using it. i never get tired of watching
. >> the election is like which party will commit suicide last. the republicans messed up with the government shutdown, now the obama website. the concern next we'll see. >> joining me political writer, "daily beast" columnist sally cohn and contributor editor wallace walls. from washington, no longer in auburn gear although i expect his team spirit is soaring former white house secretary and founding partner of the insight agency robert gibbs. robert, i'll start with you....
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because there is not an election for another year. how is that possible, they think that can keep going? >> i don't know. i mean, the problem for them is that obama care is their plan. and that's why they don't have anything to say. and they had to focus on the website. so i think the media and republicans were behind the narrative. you know, this shutdown affected the website coverage. and then the website was getting fixed and we were still talking about the website as if it was broken. and i think that the bottom line here is that once you sign up for insurance, you're not thinking about a website. on january 1st, when i go to the doctor, i'm not going to be thinking about the website. and nobody is going to ask me about the website. how long did it take you to sign up? nobody is going to be asking that. when you go to get your prescription and no co-pay for preventive care for women, you're not going to be thinking about the website. >> i think about the history books in 2040, are they going to be reading about health care or a we
because there is not an election for another year. how is that possible, they think that can keep going? >> i don't know. i mean, the problem for them is that obama care is their plan. and that's why they don't have anything to say. and they had to focus on the website. so i think the media and republicans were behind the narrative. you know, this shutdown affected the website coverage. and then the website was getting fixed and we were still talking about the website as if it was broken....
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she didn't mention election monitoring, but they've now elections, i believe, in 37 countries. and many of those countries more than once. countries like indonesia, liberia, they helped sort of they've gone s through several election cycles. and then liberia is a perfect example. they not only moved to democracy elected the first president in an african country, but they had no mental health care. cadre of nurses they developed over several cycles of that, most of the now covered with basic professional help. when you start -- i'm just scratching the surface, when you to see all of it going around the world because they can open the door as and ex-first lady, it's still going on, it hasn't stopped. nepal nt carter is in last week for the elections there. >> he is now 9 years old? >> correct. the first lady is 86, i believe. >> yes. elizabethtown, north carolina. hi, lauren, you are on. hello, good evening. i wanted to know the relationship that ms. carter had ford?the late betty >> well, they became very good friends. era they worked on the together as we mentioned. communicate
she didn't mention election monitoring, but they've now elections, i believe, in 37 countries. and many of those countries more than once. countries like indonesia, liberia, they helped sort of they've gone s through several election cycles. and then liberia is a perfect example. they not only moved to democracy elected the first president in an african country, but they had no mental health care. cadre of nurses they developed over several cycles of that, most of the now covered with basic...
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and only five years after president obama's election had ended it the first time. i mean, a tweet at 9:58 a.m., at the gop -- excuse me, from @gop, the republican national committee read, today we remember rosa parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism. ending racism? i mean, that seemed like something we should have heard about. 58 years after rosa parks refused to give up her seat on that montgomery, alabama, bus, now the rnc had a much better-worded statement on their site. and they did send a follow-up tweet hours later that indicated what had happened. they meant to say, "her role in fighting to end racism." but it was too late, because femmenista jones, the writer, had created the hashtag, racism ended when, giving credit to bill clinton and even some of their best friends. but this is just more laughing to keep from crying. all of this was the latest example of how a country, our country, is still unable to properly discuss race, in a society increasingly forgettable about structural racism and the way it pervades our nation. we noticed the flashpoints
and only five years after president obama's election had ended it the first time. i mean, a tweet at 9:58 a.m., at the gop -- excuse me, from @gop, the republican national committee read, today we remember rosa parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism. ending racism? i mean, that seemed like something we should have heard about. 58 years after rosa parks refused to give up her seat on that montgomery, alabama, bus, now the rnc had a much better-worded statement on their site. and they...
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it's a country that was reborn with tremendous hope when nelson mandela was elected. and i think you've seen quite a bit of that hope whittled away. it's one of the most unequaled country in the world. crime remains an indem i believe problem. the education system is riddled with problems. and you also see that there is an increasing public corruption. so the current president has been involved in a huge scandal involving his private home. so people look to nelson mandela and think theres with a leader. there was someone with real integrity. so i think that this is a moment for people to look back and reflect on where they've come from and how to get back on the right path. >> woodruff: and also by definition losing what i think you call the moral center for the country. >> well, i think for many people nelson pan della does represent a kind of moral center. and a choice to turn away from violence, to turn away from strife. and to turn away from racial divisions. and instead of standing in judgement of one another, to reconcile and to admit that we did terrible things
it's a country that was reborn with tremendous hope when nelson mandela was elected. and i think you've seen quite a bit of that hope whittled away. it's one of the most unequaled country in the world. crime remains an indem i believe problem. the education system is riddled with problems. and you also see that there is an increasing public corruption. so the current president has been involved in a huge scandal involving his private home. so people look to nelson mandela and think theres with...